Phulbari

Phulbari is an Upazila of Dinajpur District in the Division of Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. Phulbari is an critical commercial enterprise centre. Its significance grew notably with the development of the Barapukuria coal mine and the Madhyapara hardrock mine, each located inside a few kilometres from the town. The authorities became operating in 2006 with Asia Energy on a plan to increase an open-pit mine in Phulbari, Dinajpur. Opponents have protested the plans due to adverse environmental and social consequences.

An predicted a 120,000 humans may be displaced, such as indigenous groups. Protesters have stated this kind of mine could endanger an essential meals-producing vicinity, in addition to the fine of the water supply relied on by using tens of hundreds of people. There were fundamental protests in Bangladesh in 2006, and the authorities closed the mine. As talks started once more on the venture, protesters conducted per week-lengthy march from Phulbari to Dhaka in October 2010. In December 2010, an alliance of corporations protested in London at a meeting of GCR employer officials and stockholders.